Musnad Ahmad 16299

Translation

✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent an entourage on the day of Ḥunayn. He said, "Go and capture the living from the Arabs." He mentioned the narration and said, "By the One in whose hand is my soul, there is no newborn but he is born upon the fitrah (natural disposition), until his tongue expresses it."

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  حديث بصري صحيح

  machine translationA Basran ḥadīth, authentic (ṣaḥīḥ). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 16488
• أبو نعيم الأصبهاني

  هو حديث مشهور ثابت وفيه نظر لأن علي بن المديني ويحيى بن معين وأبا عبد الله بن منده وأبا داود وغيرهم أنكروا أن يكون الحسن سمع من الأسود شيئا

  machine translationIt is a well-known, established ḥadīth, though there is some concern about it, because ʿAlī b. al-Madīnī, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn, Abū ʿAbdillāh b. Mandah, Abū Dāwūd and others denied that al-Ḥasan heard anything from al-Aswad. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 16488

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 1358Sahih al-Bukhari 1385Sahih al-Bukhari 4775Sahih Muslim 2658b

Narrators

1. 1
   al-Aswad b. Sarīʿ al-Tamīmī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 36 AH, or 42 AH
   الْأَسْوَد بْن سَرِيع التَّمِيمِيّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), virtuous and well known; he would often narrate with omission of the Companion (irsāl) and practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 110 AH
   الْحَسَنِ .ثقة فقيه ، فاضل مشهور ، وكان يرسل كثيرا ويدلس
   عن
3. 3
   Qatādah b. Diʿāmah

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AH
   قَتَادَةَثقة ثبت
   عن
4. 4
   Saʿīd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of several works; however, he committed concealment (tadlīs) very often and his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa), and he was among the most reliable of people in narrating from Qatādahd. 150 AH or 155 AH or 156 AH or 157 AH
   سَعِيدٌثقة حافظ ، له تصانيف ؛ لكنه كثير التدليس واختلط ، وكان من أثبت الناس في قتادة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Rawḥ

   Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent, he authored worksd. 205 AH, also said: 207 AH
   رَوْحٌثقة فاضل ، له تصانيف
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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